increasingly out of step with the moderate selden mosque. he needs somewhere else to pray. he comes up this long dirt road to a small nondescript house. a new mosque. the man who was then deputy head of the fbi s national security branch tells me that he sees this pattern all too often. people peeling off in smaller groups because either they don t feel comfortable in one environment or people actively in that environment say, you re not welcome here. that s a pretty common phenomenon. are they more at risk once they ve peeled off? yes. i think they re clearly more at risk because you re going to get a close circle of individuals, where other ideas can t penetrate. we stand up for the truth! some in bryant s group tell me that bryant came to believe that the united states was at war with islam. he became so convinced of this that he took up bolinin laden s command to stop paying united
his parents also led him to experiment way new church. bryant started attending an evangelical protestant church according to his mother. he seemed to be looking for something, seeking direction in his life. but attending the new church did nothing to quail his growing anger. his mother says bryant became too much for her to handle. so she went to court and gave up custody of him. at one point, the derosh family found bryant sleeping in his car. it was one of those moments that no place to go and we offer him the house and he was more welcome to come and he did stay here for about a month or so. she says they lost touch with bryant when he moved into this house to live with his father and his father, soon-to-be wife but it was an easier arrangement. his father says bryant couldn t come to terms with his plan to remarry. unhappy living with his father,
of bryant? when we were younger, we used to go in the pool a lot. he was respectful. he wouldn t made sure that he wouldn t break any rules in the house. as he grew up bryant developed a passion for baseball. he took it very seriously, seriously enough to bike ride into the high school which from here would take on a bicycle route about half an hour. but those would be bryant s last care-free days. his world would be shattered by family turmoil, by his father leaving his mother when he was a young teenager. he was devastated by their separation and eventual divorce. bryant was filled with anger and started acting out at home. there were tears and temper tantrums. bryant started quarreling with his sister. he refused to accept his parent s separation. bryant s rebelling against
behind those windows could be the secret to bryant s radicalization. i don t see ahmed, but i do meet his father. thank you. have a good day. you too. thank you. good luck. mr. zarrini tells me, ahmed is not home. he s out of the country. but we get a tip that ahmed is not abroad. so we wait and within a few hours, a car goes by. that s him. that s him! in it, ahmed and his father. later that day, i return to the house. well, ahmed zarrini s father just admitted to me that he lied to me earlier in the day when he told me that ahmed wasn t around. he admits now that his son was in fact inside the house. i am told ahmed refuses to meet me or answer any of my questions. but while i m searching for him, i stumble across someone who will talk. he is ahmed kaiyum, one-time
officials was this man, yousef al khattab. i love osama bin laden. i love him whoa, like i can t begin to tell you. he recently told cnn s drew griffin that he met bryant. how closely did you know bryant neal vinas? i met him one time. one time? that s it. i just knew that he was a good muslim brother and that was it. and you are an enemy of islam. you re an enemy of islam. but law enforcement officials tell us that cat ab met bryant on several occasions. khattab has since left the united states. so we tried to locate ahmed zarrini the islamic thinkers society member, who we ve been told, first introduced bryant to the radical group. khattab has told us that ahmed zarrini was considered an extremist even within the islamic thinkers society. i come here to zarrini s parent s house near the selden mosque in long island. if ahmed is in there, then